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Dior reinvents Lewis Carroll’s Alice for the Brat era at Paris fashion week

Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri borrows from Dorothea Tanning’s surrealist paintings for her runway show

A fantastical landscape featuring lions in feather headdresses and plants that sprouted eyes as well as blooms was embroidered all over the walls, a stage set in the garden of the Musée Rodin. Dior, where the designer Maria Grazia Chiuri has spelled out her worldview with feminist slogan T-shirts and advocated for diversity via a long-term collaboration with a Mumbai school for female craftworkers, has been at the forefront of a decade in which progressive principles became the mainstream in fashion. Here, Chiuri swapped the signature New Look for a lesser-known chapter of Dior history, when her job was held by a young Yves Saint Laurent, who presented a new trapeze silhouette consisting of babydoll dresses with a graphic A-line shape that all but ignored the waist.

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